Jim Chalmers
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And so it's really about that big distortion that was created a quarter of a century ago
and trying to address that, and trying to address that in a way that benefits particularly young people.
We might take two more, Matt, because I saw some looks on faces when you said that was the last one.
Two more.
One more after this.
Well, the thing I'm most proud of is
When you sit down and put the budget together, we've had this huge disruption from the war in the Middle East, right?
And a lot of governments would think, okay, huge volatility in the world, we've gotta do a fuel security package, we've gotta cut fuel taxes because people are under pressure.
We'll do some of that hard stuff later.
There's a real temptation to do that, if I'm honest.
And the thing that I'm proudest of and proudest of our colleagues about, the PM all the way down,
is that we resisted that temptation.
We didn't use the war in the Middle East as an excuse not to act on some of these intergenerational issues.
And so it's really kind of like two budgets in one.
There's the near-term stuff, inflation, petrol prices, war in the Middle East, fuel security.
There's all of that stuff which in ordinary times would be big enough to be a budget on its own.
I think you acknowledge that in your question.
There's a lot here.
It's broad, ambitious.
But instead of doing that, instead of,